XInput extension, xf86XInput, evdev and a spaceball

[Thomas Jaeger]

Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 02:08:08AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> Depends on how you map the axes.  I guess a 'map tilt to x/y' property
>> might be useful, since some people really want to use it as a pointer,
>> while others don't.
> 
> working on it. see http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21129

Interesting, but shouldn't we move axis labels and ranges around when
the property is changed?  It might just be easier to specify which axes
are used for x and y, which is currently hard-coded to be 0 and 1.

And I suppose calibration could be handled in the same way.

Tom